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May. 17, 2009

Around the turn of the century, mascots were very much in vogue in San Francisco. Some say that Lillian Russell, the actress, started it when she arrived in town with a pet beetle, which she stroked for good luck before every performance. Not long afterward,...

San Francisco top city for spoiled pooches

SAN FRANCISCO, June 17 (UPI) -- San Francisco is one of the top U.S. cities when it comes to the trend of treating one's dog like royalty.

MLB: San Francisco at San Diego, ppd, rain

SAN DIEGO, April 4 (UPI) -- Tuesday's game between the San Francisco Giants and the San Diego Padres was postponed due to rain.

NBC to pay San Francisco in sidewalk case

SAN FRANCISCO, April 13 (UPI) -- NBC Universal will pay San Francisco $103,000 for defacing dozens of sidewalks to promote its television series "The 4400."

COL BKB: San Francisco 69, Denver 67 (OT)

SAN FRANCISCO, March 17 (UPI) -- Tyrone Riley's late basket forced overtime Wednesday night and San Francisco defeated Denver, 69-67 in the opening round of the NIT.

Iris Chang dead at 36

LOS GATOS, Calif., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Chinese American Iris Chang, author of "The Rape of Nanking," was found dead in her car of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound outside San Francisco.